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• Accountability Groups Help Unemployed Stay Motivated

  The New York Times just reported on a new phenomenon in job hunting that has arisen as a result of the high unemployment rate among white-collar workers – accountability groups. According to the Times, membership in various networking organizations across Read More... Posted Monday, February 02, 2009 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Employment Trends, Handy Resources, Job Hunting, Networking, Ownership & Initiative, Productivity, Goals

• Make a Deal with a Bigshot in 10 Minutes

  Thanks to ProBlogger’s Darren Rowse for sharing an excellent piece by Laura Roeder on making deals with bigshots in 10 minutes. Here are some highlights of Laura’s advice, which is sound and absolutely worth following, because no matter how great you Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 28, 2009 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Job Hunting, Networking, Office Politics, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills

• Don’t Annoy People by Committing these E-mail Sins

  For those of you who need New Years resolutions (and by the way, I’m not doing a post on career resolutions because I feel that topic has been substantially covered in the blogosphere already), here are two ideas for improving your reputation through Read More... Posted Wednesday, January 07, 2009 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Communication, Networking, Office Politics, Technology

• 5 Ways to Be Productive Between Christmas and New Years

  If you have to be at work during the “dead” week between Christmas and New Year’s, what are you planning on doing with yourself? For corporate employees, this is traditionally a time where people sit at their desks and twiddle their thumbs because the Read More... Posted Wednesday, December 24, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Networking, Productivity, Daily Life, Work, Goals

• Book Review: The 29% Solution

  Says Ivan Misner, the founder and chairman of BNI , the world's largest business networking organization: “It’s not Net-SIT or NeT-EAT, it’s Net-WORK. Successful networking is about learning how to work the networking process, not just letting it happen.” Read More... Posted Friday, December 19, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Networking, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills, Personal Development

• What Your Personal E-mail Address Says About You

  When you work for an organization, an e-mail address is provided to you and you don’t have any choice in the matter. It doesn’t matter if that e-mail address dumps real e-mail in the spam folder and allows spam to sail into your inbox. You’re stuck with Read More... Posted Friday, November 28, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Networking, Personal Marketing, Technology, Blogging

• Nagging Versus Appropriate Follow Up

  At my college reunion, I met a prominent national newspaper editor I’ve admired for a long time. I had e-mailed her a couple of times to introduce myself over the years, but she hadn’t responded, and I didn’t want to be a nag so I let it go. When I talked Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 12, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Communication, Job Hunting, Networking, People Skills

• Words of Wisdom on Job Action Day

  To rally those who have lost their jobs or are facing possible job loss in the current devastated economic climate, Quintessential Careers has created Job Action Day . Job Action Day, which is today, aims to empower workers and job-seekers to take proactive Read More... Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Attitude & Motivation, Career Change, Current Affairs, Job Hunting, Networking, Productivity, Work, Plans, Hopes, Goals

• Don't Bite the Hand That Feeds You

  Marketing guru Seth Godin read my mind. As he says in a recent post : “I don't know about you, but I'm getting plenty of emails asking for more money for various political campaigns. That's because the systems in place are good at asking for money, and Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Networking, People Skills, Personal Marketing, News and Politics

• Mentors Are Out, Developmental Networks Are In?

  As I was working on Success for Hire , I had the good fortune to meet an excellent blogger and radio show host, the Recruiting Animal . Animal’s got one of the most hilariously combative shows you’ll ever listen to, and I had a great time as a guest earlier Read More... Posted Wednesday, October 08, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, Management, Mentoring, Networking, Personal Development

• How Would You Network if the Internet Went Down?

  Says my colleague Dan Schawbel on his Personal Branding blog : “Over the past few days, I’ve put a lot of thought into online versus offline personal branding. We all need to focus on building powerful offline brands, because who knows what will happen Read More... Posted Wednesday, September 24, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Networking, Personal Marketing, Technology

• 4 Tips for Avoiding Fan Worship

  My friend Pam Slim over at Escape from Cubicle Nation has a great post on how to tread the fine line between expressing admiration for someone and fan worship. Straight from the ECN blog are 4 “fan traps” to avoid. I’ve been known to do some of these Read More... Posted Wednesday, July 02, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Mentoring, Networking, People Skills, Professionalism

• Read the Clues Before You Take the Job

  Far too often, I see or hear about people jumping into new job situations, either because they’re desperate to be employed or because they get overzealous after a really good interview. But rushing into a job is like rushing into a relationship – a lack Read More... Posted Monday, June 02, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Job Hunting, Networking, Troubleshooting, Work

• Fight Back Against Out of Sight, Out of Mind

  Out of sight, out of mind is one of my least favorite qualities of human nature. I can’t tell you the number of relationships, which I thought were real and lasting, that went bust because I used to see the person every day at school or work and then Read More... Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Networking, Ownership & Initiative, People Skills, Troubleshooting, Work

• The One Time It’s Okay to Gossip

  What’s the one time it’s okay to gossip? When you’re looking for a job. Discussion of your job search should not be reserved for close friends/family or headhunters or official networking events. If you’re looking for work or thinking about looking for Read More... Posted Monday, April 28, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 4 Comments Filed under: Career Change, Job Hunting, Networking, People Skills, Plans, Hopes, Goals